Unions and Inequality over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data
Source: Henry S Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko, Suresh Naidu, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 136, Issue 3, August 2021(subscription required)From the abstract:U.S. income...
View ArticleCOVID-Related Labor Arbitration Awards in the United States and Canada: A...
Source: Richard A. Bales, Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2021From the abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21 has changed working conditions for millions of Americans and...
View ArticleDemocrats Don’t Grasp That Unions Can Transform the Electorate
Source: Hamilton Nolan, In These Times, June 8, 2021Unions are machines for producing people who wouldn’t be satisfied with Joe Manchin’s obstinance. Our political discussions often focus on how our...
View ArticleWorker Power and Voice in the Pandemic Response
Source: Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs, Clean Slate for Worker Power, July 2021From the summary: Our country is wracked by two urgent crises – the COVID-19 pandemic and the plague of systemic racism....
View ArticleThe enormous impact of eroded collective bargaining on wages
Source: Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute, April 8, 2021From the summary: A major factor depressing wage growth for middle earners and driving the growth of wage inequality over the last four...
View ArticlePublic Sector Unions Mean Middle-Class Jobs for Black Workers
Source: Hayley Brown, Dean Baker, CEPR, February 25, 2021Government jobs have been an important source of economic mobility for Black workers and their families for many years. The federal government...
View ArticleBargaining for Better Labor Journalism: How The Wave of Unionizing In Media...
Source: Hannah Finnie, OnLabor blog, February 26, 2021…While not every person in digital media who’s experienced unionizing becomes, like Kelly, a labor reporter overnight, it’s hard to imagine that...
View ArticleInside a Long, Messy Year of Reopening Schools
Source: Rachel M. Cohen, New Republic, March 8, 2021Teachers unions were accused of being obstinate and compromising education. The real story is a lot more complex. Last month in Chicago, after...
View ArticleI Am a Man: A Conversation With William Lucy
Source: Steve Flamisch, Rutgers Today News, February 26, 2021Francis Ryan, a labor historian in the School of Management and Labor Relations, interviews the union leader who coined the iconic phrase,...
View ArticlePromoting Good Jobs and a Stronger Economy: How Free Collective-Bargaining...
Source: Illinois Economic Policy Institute (ILEPI) and the Project for Middle Class Renewal (PMCR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 9, 2021From the press release: In an...
View ArticleInvestigating the Dimensionality and Stability of Union Commitment Profiles...
Source: Alexandre J. S. Morin, Daniel G. Gallagher, John P. Meyer, David Litalien, Paul F. Clark, ILR Review, Volume 74 Issue 1, January 2021(subscription required) From the abstract: The authors...
View ArticleDigital tools are helping employees mobilize the workforce
Source: Nicolás Rivero, Quartz at Work, December 13, 2020Technology has already fundamentally changed the way that millions of people work. Now, it’s changing the way they unify to make demands of...
View ArticleCollective Action Is How We Shake Ourselves Free of Pandemic Isolation
Source: Barbara Madeloni, Labor Notes, September 30, 2020The pandemic has made me see more clearly why it works when workers get together to solve problems collectively. With no public health system...
View ArticleIn Union, There is Strength: How Our Union Benefits Our Nonprofit’s Mission
Source: Juli Adhikari, Thomas Waldrop and Malkie Wall, Nonprofit Quarterly, September 22, 2020 …As nonprofit workers at a policy thinktank, we realize we are relatively shielded from some of the worst...
View ArticleWhen Do Unions Matter to Social Policy? Organized Labor and Leave Legislation...
Source: Cassandra Engeman, Social Forces, Advance Articles, Published: July 29, 2020(subscription required) From the abstract: Trade union institutions are historically and comparatively weak in the...
View ArticleWhy Public Sector Union Members Support Their Unions: Survey and Experimental...
Source: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ethan Porter, Social Forces, Advance Articles, Published September 7, 2020(subscription required) From the abstract: Despite their decline, unions, and especially...
View ArticleMortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes
Source: Adam Dean, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Simeon Kimmel, Health Affairs, Ahead of Print, September 10, 2020(subscription required) From the abstract: More than 40% of all reported coronavirus...
View ArticleThe labor-busting law firms and consultants that keep Google, Amazon and...
Source: John Logan , The Conversation, August 24, 2020American companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the reasons...
View ArticleNew Labor Viscerality? Work Stoppages in the ‘New Work,’ Non-Union Economy
Source: Michael Duff, St. Louis University Law Journal, Forthcoming, Date Written: June 28, 2020 From the abstract: The COVID-19 work stoppages involving employees refusing to work because they are...
View ArticleGo Big or Go Home: The Case for Clean Slate Labor Law Reform
Source: Sharon Block, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 41 no. 1, 2020David E. Feller Memorial Labor Law Lecture (April 11, 2019)(subscription required) ….[A]s will come as no...
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